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Southern Exposure’s Annual Monster Drawing Rally is tonight! and I will be drawing from 8:00-9:00 pm. Come out and say hello this is a super fun event that supports an important and great organization. You can also follow along with all the fun on social media by looking for the hashtag #MDR2016, I will definitely be posting pics!

From the press release:

The famous live drawing event and fundraiser comes to newly-opened art space Minnesota Street Project Date: Friday, June 24, 2016 Time: 6:00 to 11:00 PM Tickets: $15 SoEx Members / $20 general public, available at soex.org/mdr2016 and at the door Off-Site Location: Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco June 21, 2016, San Francisco, CA – Southern Exposure is pleased to announce its famous annual Monster Drawing Rally, a live drawing event and fundraiser that will take place on Friday, June 24, 2016 at Minnesota Street Project. Over the course of the night, 122 artists at all stages of their careers take shifts to draw for an hour in front a live audience, bringing their private studio practices to the public. As spectators spy on the creative process, sketches morph into full-fledged artworks made from collage, watercolor, ink, and graphite or even performative acts. Finished drawings are immediately available for $75 each.

I am happy to share that I have been invited to participate in a group exhibition titled Perpetual Sunset at 2731 Prospect Contemporary Art in Cleveland, OH. The exhibition opens this Saturday, June 17 and will run through July 30, 2016. I will also be giving an Artist talk at the gallery on Saturday July 23 at 2:00pm, so if you are going to be in Cleveland or know anyone who will be please let them know! A bit about the exhibit from the 2731 Prospect website:

“Perpetual Sunset features new work in painting and print media by Brandon Juhasz, Aaron Koehn and Erik Parra. This trio of artists are linked via their mutual interest in fabricated realities that seem to be subversively lurking in every corner of contemporary life. Their works collectively examine the odd visual and psychological slippages that occur within a swirl of glossy corporate branding, stock advertising imagery and manufactured interior spaces…”

The Southern Exposure auction is one week away! I am happy to have donated a piece in support of this vital Bay Area Arts institution. The auction will take place on March 21, 2015 at SoEx’s 20th street location in San Francisco. For more information on the auction, including advanced online bidding visit the SoEx auction website.

For more information about the tons of ways SoEx supports artists and the greater community visit the SOEX website.

All of the installation galleries should be up and running with thorough documentation of each project. For each gallery I combined my personal documentation with the official documentation of each installation to provide as clear a picture as possible of each space. Additionally there is a new stop motion video on the installations page from Capturing the Void an installation I made at a commercial gallery in Portland, OR in 2013.